This is just a day for follow-ups
- Yesterday I opined that I’d like to see someone like Joe Conason on a debate panel. Today, he offers not the questions he would ask President Bush, but the ones he’s sure Kerry can expect–and the answers he thinks he should give.
- Watching the debate so you don’t have to!
–Not me, thank goodness, Kevin Drum. In The Washington Monthly blog, he announces he’ll be “live debate blogging” tomorrow night, which should be worth a glance.
He also quotes an observation by James Fallows “about the vast difference between the George Bush of today and the George Bush of 1994, when he was debating Ann Richards during the Texas gubernatorial race:
‘This Bush was eloquent. He spoke quickly and easily. He rattled off complicated sentences and brought them to the right grammatical conclusions….More striking, he did not pause before forcing out big words, as he so often does now, or invent mangled new ones. “
….Obviously, Bush doesn’t sound this way as President, and there is no one conclusive explanation for the change.’
I have a totally questionable one, but what the hell it’s my blog. Why the big change between then and now? Answer:
He was sober then.
Cast your mind back. Do you really think Bush passed out cold on the White House floor because he was eating a pretzel?
